Back from the limbo...

1998-11-03 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
CVS checkout as of today (btw., Chris, whatever became of the JavaCVS distribution you wanted to wrap up... 2 months ago? 3 months?). === java Summary === # of expected passes89 # of unexpected failures9 I especially like: Fatal Java VM Error: ThrowNew unab

japharhjaphar segfaults

1998-11-04 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
First I had to remove a japharh from August :-). Then, I got: japharhjaphar --classpath=./classes --stubs Whatever (gdb) where #0 0x40034b34 in ?? () from /opt/local/lib/libruntime.so.1 #1 0x400350c5 in ?? () from /opt/local/lib/libruntime.so.1 #2 0x40048276 in ?? () from /opt/local/lib/libr

Re: Back from the limbo...

1998-11-05 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Chris Toshok writes: > > CVS checkout as of today > > I am not up to date on your code base. > you aren't? please update before sending bug reports... I said: CVS checkout as of today. I just haven't read and understood every single cvs-commit message from the last month's backlog. > I thou

RE: Back from the limbo...

1998-11-09 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
John Keiser writes: > > There was a list debate about initialization in general. > > I voted for "initialize on load", which is not in > > accordance with the specs. > > After having written the bootstrap classes, I *must* disagree. > They have good reasons for delaying initialization, it m

Re: Project Mauve: A Free Java Regression Test and Compatibility Package

1998-12-04 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Tom Tromey writes: > I believe we currently require GNU make, sh, a Java runtime, and a > Java compiler. It would probably be possible to get rid of the GNU > make dependency. I'm not particularly motivated to do it. There is a JavaMake ( and a JavaDepend http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~stever/sof

Open Source JVM/core classes vs. trust

1998-12-17 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
SOT, but you have prolly solved this already... How do you prevent somebody taking a (L)GPL'ed or Open source for a JVM and/or core classes, hacking backdoors and trojan horses into it, and deploying it? To be more precise: sure it'll be either obvious (source is there) or illegal (violation of

Re: the errors

1999-03-24 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Godmar Back writes: > No, it's the GPL; what I described was Tim Wilkinson's interpretation. > The question revolves about what "linking" is. > > Tim's interpretation coincides with the interpretation of other people. > Below, I append a mail Jules Bean sent. Jules is involved in the Debian

Re: Japhar Apps

1999-03-29 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Edward Ribeiro] > > The idea of a portable Java interpreter seens to be very good, but > > what kind of application will have advantage with a embedded JVM? Weird question to begin with. The "java" VM binary, no? > Well, currently, I know of two. Mozilla/Netsc

JNI binary compatibility

1999-08-26 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
A dumb question about clean-room VM's and JNI. JNI is supposed to be binary compatible - a DLL created using a compliant jni.h is supposed to work with any VM. The JNI specs specifies jobject as opaque struct. Is this sufficient for a binary compatible JNI clean-room implementation? So, is a